Remedy

Characteristics Symptoms

Patient Worse by

Patient Better by

Fat patients with weak heart, wheezing, feel suffocated

Very sensitive to cold air

Great aversion to water; cannot bear to touch it

Heaviness in all organs

Uncleanness in bodily habits

Acid secretions

Prostration from trifles

Taste sour; metallic

Great appetite, but easily satisfied

Frequent desire; involuntary at night

Urine white, sandy, bloody, copious, turbid and fetid

Erection without desire; seminal emissions

Leucorrhœa burning, acrid, watery

Aversion to the other sex

Menses too frequent, profuse, early, copious, clotted, black; colicky pains, and hard, difficult stool, with fatigue, especially of thighs; yawning and chilliness

Deep-seated periosteal pain

Tearing in ankle and bones of feet, better when warm in bed

Sleepiness during the day; starts from sleep strangling

From cold, wet weather

Wet applications

Washing

During 3 to 4 am

During menses

In dry weather

Extreme sensitiveness and terrible throbbing, nightly pains

Offensive otorrhœa, with boring pains in mastoid bone

Caries of nasal bones

Great difficulty in bringing up wind

Flatulence and regurgitation of liquid

Hysterical flatulence. Great distention. Sensation of emptiness and weak

Forcible eructation of gas

Gurgling and rolling of wind, which escapes afterwards with loud and difficult eructation

Darting pain and caries in bones

From touch

Left side

During rest

Warm applications

From motion

Pressure

Neuralgic pains that come and go suddenly

Heat, redness, throbbing and burning

Great children's remedy

 No thirst, anxiety or fear

Stands for violence of attack and suddenness of onset

Loss of appetite

Averse to meat and milk

Great thirst for cold water

Abhorrence of liquids; dread of drinking

Sexual desire diminished

Menses increased; bright red, too early, too profuse; very offensive and hot

Tottering gait

Stiff neck; pain in nape, as if it would break; pressure on dorsal region most painful

Sleep restless, crying out, gritting of teeth; kept awake by pulsation of blood-vessels; screams out in sleep

Sleeplessness, with drowsiness

Starting when closing the eyes or during sleep

Sleeps with hands under head

Jar

Noise

Draught

After noon

Lying down

Rachitic conditions

Gets out of breath easily

A jaded state, mental or physical, due to overwork

Is a definite stimulant to the periosteum

Easy relapses, interrupted convalescence

Persons of scrofulous type, who take cold easily, with increased mucous secretions, children who grow fat, are large-bellied, with large head, pale skin, chalky look, the so-called leuco-phlegmatic temperament

Great sensitiveness to cold; partial sweats

Calcarea patient is fat, fair, flabby and perspiring and cold, damp and sour

Open fontanelles; head enlarged; much perspiration, wets the pillow

Pain from right mental foramen along lower jaw to ear

Difficult and delayed dentition

Aversion to meat, boiled things, fat

Craving for indigestible things-chalk, coal, pencils; also for eggs, salt and sweets

Milk disagrees

Frequent sour eructations; sour vomiting

Loss of appetite when overworked

Heartburn and loud belching

Ravenous hunger

Repugnance to hot food

Thirst; longing for cold drinks

 Aggravation while eating

Children are late in learning to walk

Urine dark, brown, sour, fetid, abundant, with white sediment, bloody

Frequent seminal emissions; increased desire

Semen emitted too soon

Coition followed by weakness and irritability

Menses too early, too profuse, too long, with vertigo, toothache and cold, damp feet; the least excitement causes their return

Leucorrhœa, milky (Sepia

Increased sexual desire; easy conception

Curvature of dorsal vertebræ

Ideas crowding in her mind prevent sleep; horrid visions when opening eyes; starts at every noise; fears that she will go crazy

Drowsy in early part of evening

Frequent waking at night

Same disagreeable idea always arouses from light slumber

Night terrors

Dreams of the dead

Ascending

Cold in every form

Water

Washing

Moist air

Wet weather

During full moon

Standing

Lying on painful side

Caries and necrosis with boring pains and heat in parts

Sclerosis of ossicula and petrous portion of temporal bone

Hard swelling on jaw-bone

Osseous tumors

Rachitic enlargement of femur in infants

Pain lower part of back, with burning

Vivid dreams, with sense of impending danger

Unrefreshing sleep

Changes of weather

Warm applications

Bone disease non-union of fractured bones

It has a special affinity where bones form sutures or symphyses

Numbness and crawling

Tendency to perspiration

Headache, worse near the region of sutures

Fontanelles remain open too long

Cranial bones soft and thin

Craving for bacon, ham, salted or smoked meats. Much flatulence

Great hunger with thirst flatulence temporarily relieved by sour eructations

Heartburn

Urine increased, with sensation of weakness

Menses too early, excessive, and bright in girls. If late, blood is dark; sometimes, first bright, then dark, with violent backache

Leucorrhœa, like white of egg

Soreness in sacro-iliac symphysis, as if broken

Pains in joints and bones

Weary when going upstairs

Melting snow

From any change of weather

Warm, dry atmosphere

Sensation of internal chill

Moaning and howling

Does absurd things

Desire for unnatural things, like coal

Flatulence with anxiety and crossness

Draughts

Concussion

Tobacco smoke

Weakness from mere speaking or walking though looking strong

Pallor of skin, mucous membranes, face, alternating with flushes

Orgasms of blood to face, chest, head, lungs, etc; irregular distribution of blood

Pseudo-plethora

Muscles flabby and relaxed

Earthy, pasty taste, like rotten eggs

Voracious appetite, or absolute loss of appetite

Loathing of sour things

Eructations of food after eating, without nausea

Intolerance of eggs

Stool undigested, at night, while eating or drinking, painless

Menses remit a day or two, and then return

Menses too early, too profuse, last too long; pale, watery

Pain in hip-joint, tibia, soles, and heel

While sitting still

After cold washing

Overheating

Midnight

After rising

Great sensitiveness to all impressions

Sweating patient pulling blanket around him.

Tendency to suppuration

Chilliness, hypersensitiveness, splinter-like pains,

Feeling as if wind were blowing on some part

The side of the body on which he lies at night becomes gradually insufferably painful; he must turn

Pains in bones of face, especially when being touched

Longing for acids, wine, and strong-tasting food

Aversion to fat food

Frequent eructations, without taste or smell

Stool clay-colored and soft; sour, white, undigested, fetid; loss of power to expel even a soft stool

Urine voided slowly, without force-drops vertically, bladder weak; seems as if some always remained

Greasy pellicle on urine

Sexual excitement and emission without amorous fancies

Menses late and scanty.

Extremely offensive leucorrhœa; smells like old cheese

Finger-joints swollen; tendency to easy dislocation

Constant offensive exhalation from the body

Cool air

Slightest draught

From Mercury

Touch

Lying on painful side

From wrapping head up

From warmth

After eating

Hungry with much thirst

Great debility, the slightest effort induces perspiration

Iodum individual is exceedingly thin, dark complexioned, with enlarged lymphatic glands, has voracious appetite but gets thin

Tremor

Craves cold air

Sluggish vital reaction, hence chronicity in many of its aspects

Iodine is warm, and wants cool surroundings

Weakness and loss of breath going upstairs

Empty eructations, as if every particle of food were turned into gas

Anxious and worried if he does not eat

Urine frequent and copious, dark yellow-green, thick, acrid with cuticle on surface

Loss of sexual power, with atrophied testes

Great weakness during menses; menstruation irregular.

Acrid leucorrhœa, thick, slimy, corroding the linen

Pain in bones at night

In warm room

Right side

In open air

After eating

Especially indicated in fat children and adults, who are feeble and catch cold in relaxing atmosphere; warm, moist weather

Bones of skull feel crushed or bruised

Mouth, moist; much saliva

Menses too early and too profuse

Sleeps with eyes half open; shocks in all limbs on going to sleep

From veal

Moist warm wind

Lying down

Intolerant of cold drinks; craves everything warm

Best adapted to persons intellectually keen, but of weak, muscular power

Deep-seated, progressive, chronic diseases

 Emaciation

Debility in morning

Pre-senility

Patient is thin, withered, full of gas and dry

Lacks vital heat; has poor circulation, cold extremities

Pains come and go suddenly

Sensitive to noise and odors

Bad odor from mouth

Dyspepsia due to farinaceous and fermentable food, cabbage, beans, etc

Excessive hunger

Aversion to bread, etc

Desire for sweet things

Food tastes sour

Sour eructations

Great weakness of digestion.

Eating ever so little creates fullness

Cannot eat oysters

Rolling of flatulence

Wakes at night feeling hungry

Incomplete burning eructations rise only to pharynx there burn for hours

Likes to take food and drink hot

Stool hard, difficult, small, incomplete

Polyuria during the night; heavy red sediment.

No erectile power; impotence; premature emission

Menses too late; last too long, too profuse

Leucorrhœa, acrid, with burning in vagina

Drowsy during day; starting in sleep; dreams of accidents

Offensive secretions; viscid and offensive perspiration, especially of feet and axillæ

From right to left

From above downward

4 to 8 pm

From heat or warm room, hot air, bed

Warm applications, except throat and stomach which are better from warm drinks

After midnight

From warm food and drink

On getting cold

From being uncovered

Weakness with ebullitions and tremblings from least exertion

Complaints increase with the sweat and rest; all associated with a great deal of weariness, prostration, and trembling

A human "thermometer"; sensitive to heat and cold

Breath, excretions and body smell foul

Tendency to formation of pus, which is thin, greenish, putrid; streaked with thin blood

Pain and swelling of nasal bones, and caries, with greenish fetid ulceration

Aching in facial bones

Sweetish metallic taste

Salivary secretions greatly increased

Great thirst, with moist mouth

Putrid eructations. Intense thirst for cold drinks

Weak digestion, with continuous hunger

Menses profuse, with abdominal pains

Leucorrhœa excoriating, greenish and bloody; sensation of rawness in parts

Bruised pain in small of back, especially when sitting

Tearing pain in coccyx; better, pressing on abdomen

Bone-pains and in limbs; worse, night

Excessive odorous viscid perspiration; worse, night

Wet, damp weather

Lying on right side

Perspiring

Warm room

Warm bed

Bruised, weary feeling in joints, with drawing and stiffness

Pains of various kinds, with chilliness and sensitiveness to cold air

Bone pains

Pains shoot upward and seem to draw patient up out of bed

Semi-lateral complaints

Patient is very sensitive to cold air

Violent neuralgia about face and teeth, running towards ear, at night; worse, eating; better near hot stove

Desire for ham-fat.

Mouth waters

Red flakes float on top of urine

Menses too frequent, soon, profuse

Leucorrhœa like albumen; very corroding

Violent sexual desire

Pain and burning in tibia and long bones

Bones, especially long bones, inflamed and swollen; caries, exostosis; pain worse night, touch, damp weather

Night

Evening until midnight

Warm food

Touch

Motion

Acts best on the dark complexioned and past middle life

Pains appear and disappear quickly

All discharges very offensive, especially urine, feces, and perspiration.

Persons who have chronic diseases, and take cold easily and disposed to diarrhœa

Excessive physical irritability

Caries of mastoid

Putrid breath

Salivation

Bloody saliva

Great hunger, with sweetish taste

Longing for indigestible things-chalk, earth, etc

Loves fat and salt

Urine scanty, dark, offensive; smells like horse's urine; cold on passing;

Urine bloody and albuminous

Leucorrhœa brown, flesh-colored, watery, or stringy, offensive

Menses early, profuse, like muddy water, with pain in back, hips and thighs

Short breath on going upstairs

Cold climate

 and also hot weather

Strong aversion to fat food, meat

Hunger, immediately after stool

Ravenous hunger; must rise at night and eat

Odor of garlic

Before menses, throbbing in head

Leucorrhœa, profuse, albuminous

Pain in nape of neck, stiff and painful

Weakness in small of back

Coccyx painful

Before and during a thunder-storm

From riding in cars

Passive motion

In winter

Eating

From mental states

Eating cabbage

Lying with head high

Dry weather

Rhachitis and periosteal inflammation

Averse to sunlight; sees colors as if a rainbow

Intolerant of noise

Craves juicy things

Sour risings

Thirst for cold milk

Frequent, profuse, watery, milky

Micturition, preceded by anxiety and followed by burning

Frequent urination at night

Phosphaturia

Emissions at night and at stool

Sexual power deficient; parts relax during embrace

Menses too early and profuse, with pain in liver

Itching; yellow leucorrhœa after menses

Boring pain between scapulæ

Pain in back and limbs, as if beaten

Tearing pains in joints, bones, and periosteum

Great debility

Pains at night, as if bones were scraped

Stumbles easily and makes missteps

Lascivious dreams with emissions

From being talked to

Loss of vital fluids

Sexual excesses

Everything impeding circulation causes aggravation of symptoms

Excessive and rapid emaciation

Contractions and boring pain

Stools hard, lumpy, black with urging and spasm of anus

Urine albuminous; low specific gravity.; scanty.; emission drop by drop

Loss of sexual power

Spinal cord sclerosed

Lightning-like pains; temporarily better by pressure

Motion

Hard pressure

Physical exertion

Sad, crying readily; weeps when talking; changeable, contradictory

The patient seeks the open air; always feels better there, even though he is chilly

Discharges thick, bland, and yellowish-green.

Symptoms ever changing

Thirstless, peevish, and chilly.

Great sensitiveness

Wants the head high. Feels uncomfortable with only one pillow

Lies with hands above head

Nasal bones sore

Greasy taste

Dry mouth, without thirst; wants it washed frequently

Offensive odor from mouth

Food, especially bread, tastes bitter

Much sweet saliva

Alternations of taste, bitter, bilious, greasy, salty, foul; loss of taste

Desire for tonics

Averse to fat food, warm food, and drink

Eructations; taste of food remains a long time; after ices, fruits, pasty

Bitter taste, diminished taste of all food

Flatulence

Dislikes butter

Heartburn

Thirstlessness, with nearly all complaints

No two stools alike

Two or three normal stools daily

Urine increased desire; worse when lying down

Menses too late, scanty, thick, dark, clotted, changeable, intermittent.

Leucorrhœa acrid, burning, creamy

Pain in back; tired feeling

Wide awake in the evening; first sleep restless; wakes languid, unrefreshed

Irresistible sleepiness in afternoon

Sleeps with hands over head

Rich fat food

After eating

Towards evening

Warm room

Lying on left or on painless side

When allowing feet to hang down

Motion

Cold applications

Cold food and drinks, though not thirsty

Pains in bones in spots, and reappear by change of weather

Cannot sleep unless legs are crossed

All symptoms reappear in rough weather

Night

Towards morning

Warmth

Eating

All parts of the body are painful, as if bruised

Feeling of intense lassitude, weakness and despair

Injured "bruised" bones

Constant urging to urinate, feels bladder full

Pain in nape, back and loins

Backache better pressure and lying on back

Spine and limbs feel bruised

Small of back and loins pain

Legs give out on rising from a chair, hips and thighs so weak

Pain in bones of feet and ankles

Great restlessness

From cold, wet weather

Pains extend down to back, chills easily

Upward tendency of its symptoms

Easy fainting

"Ball" sensation in inner parts

Sepia acts best on brunettes

 All pains are from below up

Feels cold even in warm room

Open fontanelles

Taste salty, putrid

Everything tastes too salty

Longing for vinegar, acids, and pickles

Worse, after milk, especially when boiled.

Loathes fat

Red, adhesive, sand in urine

Involuntary urination, during first sleep

Leucorrhœa yellow, greenish; with much itching

Menses Too late and scanty, irregular; early and profuse; sharp clutching pains

Weakness in small of back

Pains extend into back

Washing

Laundry-work

Dampness

Left side

After sweat

Cold air

Before thunder-storm

Pressure

Warmth of bed

Hot applications

Drawing limbs up

Cold bathing

After sleep

Scrofulous, rachitic children, with large head open fontanelles and sutures, distended abdomen, slow in walking

Suppurative processes.

Silica patient is cold, chilly, hugs the fire, wants plenty warm clothing, hates drafts, hands and feet cold, worse in winter

Lack of vital heat

Prostration of mind and body

Great sensitiveness to taking cold

Intolerance of alcoholic stimulants

Want of grit, moral or physical

Caries of mastoid

Sensitive to noise.

Nasal bones sensitive

Perforation of septum

Disgust for meat and warm food

Want of appetite; thirst excessive

Sour eructations after eating

Stool comes down with difficulty; when partly expelled, recedes again

A milky, acrid leucorrhœa

Increased menses, with paroxysms of icy coldness over whole body

Weak spine; very susceptible to draughts on back

Pain in coccyx

Diseases of bones of spine

Night-walking; gets up while asleep

Sleeplessness, with great orgasm of blood and heat in head

Frequent starts in sleep; anxious dreams; excessive gaping

In morning

From washing

During menses

Uncovering,

Lying down

Damp

Lying on

Left side

Cold

Wrapping up head

Summer

In wet or humid weather

Sexual sins and excesses

Very sensitive

Desire for stimulants

Craving for tobacco

Canine hunger, even when stomach is full.

Leucorrhœa

Sensation as if a drop of urine were rolling continuously along the channel

Backache; worse in morning before rising

Extremities feel beaten and painful

Dull aching of nates extending to hip-joint and small of back

Indignation

Grief

Mortification

Loss of fluids

Onanism

Sexual excesses

Tobacco

Least touch on affected parts

Warmth

Rest at night

Standing is the worst position for Sulphur patients, it is always uncomfortable

Dirty, filthy people, prone to skin affections

Aversion to being washed

When carefully-selected remedies fail to act, especially in acute diseases, it frequently arouses the reactionary powers of the organism; complaints that relapse

General offensive character of discharge and exhalations

Complete loss of, or excessive appetite

Putrid eructation

Food tastes too salty

Drinks much, eats little

Milk disagrees

Great desire for sweets

Great acidity, sour eructation

Very weak and faint about 11 am; must have something to eat

Frequent micturition, especially at night

Must hurry, sudden call to urinate

Great quantities of colorless urine

Much offensive perspiration

Menses too late, short, scanty, and difficult; thick, black, acrid, making parts sore; menses preceded by headache or suddenly stopped

Leucorrhœa, burning, excoriating. Nipples cracked; smart and burn

Drawing pain between shoulders

Stiffness of nape

Sensation as if vertebræ glided over each other

Cannot walk erect; stoop-shouldered

Talks, jerks, and twitches during sleep

Vivid dreams

Wakes up singing

Wakes frequently, and becomes wide awake suddenly

Catnaps; slightest noise awakens

Cannot sleep between 2 an 5 am

When standing

Warmth in bed

Washing

Bathing

In morning

11 am

Night

From alcoholic stimulants

Periodically

Lying on right side

From drawing up affected limbs

Noises seem to strike on painful spots over the body

Rachitis, caries, necrosis

Sensitiveness between vertebræ; avoids pressure on spine

Stinging pains

Pressure

On shipboard

Riding in carriage

Closing eyes

Jar

Noise

Coitus

Left side